As it happened: Hong Kong leadership candidates take part in final debate of election campaign

The three candidates vying to become Hong Kong’s next chief executive took part in the final debate of the election campaign in front of hundreds of voters at AsiaWorld-Expo on Lantau Island.

The two-hour debate was co-organised by a group of Election Committee members from both the pan-democratic and pro-establishment political camps. The committee’s 1,194 members will decide next Sunday which of the three hopefuls – former government chief secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, ex-finance minister John Tsang Chun-wah, or retired judge Woo Kwok-hing – will govern Hong Kong for the next five years.